2000 Graduate Student Winner: Leslie Vaughan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Developing an Ethogram to Record Environmental Influences on the Occupation of Time and Quality of Life Persons with Dementia Living in Institutions

1998 Honorable Mention: Tony Hebert, University of Florida, Gainesville,Capturing the Uncaptured: An Anthropological Approach to Quality of Life Perceptions Among Elderly African Americans with Glaucoma.

1996 Co-Winner: Julie Haun, Portland State University,Functional Uses of Language in the Conversational Discourse of a Person with Alzheimer’s Disease

1996 Honorable Mention: Hisashi Yamagata, Carnegie Mellon University,Encounters Across Boundaries: The Ethnographer and the Elderly in an Urban Community Center

1995 Winner: Lene Levy-Storms, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, The Predictors of Institutionalization in Context: A Crises Perspective

1995 Honorable Mention: Sylvia J. Ansay, Department of Sociology, University of Florida,An Older Family Deals With Nursing Home Placement: A Narrative Case Study

1995 Honorable Mention: Tovah Bates, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco,
Loss of Self in Alzheimer’s Disease: Perspectives of the Afflicted